Mothers of Conservatism : : Women and the Postwar Right / / Michelle M. Nickerson.

• VerfasserIn: Nickerson, Michelle M.,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2012]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Edition: Course Book
• Language: English
• Series: Politics and Society in Modern America ; 84
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (264 p.) :; 16 halftones. 2 line illus.
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Illustrations --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction --; Abbreviations --; Chapter I. Patriotic Daughters and Isolationist Mothers --; Chapter II. All Politics Was Local --; Chapter III. Education or Indoctrination? --; Chapter IV. “Siberia, U.S.A.” Psychological Experts and the State --; Chapter V. The “Conservative Sex” --; Conclusion --; Appendix: Conservative Bookstores Operating in Southern California in the 1960’s --; Notes --; Index --; Backmatter
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781400842209
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Michelle M. Nickerson.

Mothers of Conservatism tells the story of 1950s Southern Californian housewives who shaped the grassroots right in the two decades following World War II. Michelle Nickerson describes how red-hunting homemakers mobilized activist networks, institutions, and political consciousness in local education battles, and she introduces a generation of women who developed political styles and practices around their domestic routines. From the conservative movement's origins in the early fifties through the presidential election of 1964, Nickerson documents how women shaped conservatism from the bottom up, out of the fabric of their daily lives and into the agenda of the Republican Party.A unique history of the American conservative movement, Mothers of Conservatism shows how housewives got out of the house and discovered their political capital.